Salons

Rebecca Wood
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology

Beliefs, Power, and Practice: How Language Ideologies Impact Native American Reclamation Efforts

This presentation will discuss issues facing Native communities in their language revitalization efforts, focusing on the dynamics of a western Montana community of practice.

Rebecca Wood is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCCS. She teaches on language in culture, contemporary Native American communities, and ethnographic and linguistic methods. 

Dr. Wood's research focuses on Indigenous and minoritized communities, with an emphasis on language change and revitalization. She also examines how outdoor sports intersect with culture, identity, and community.

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Carole Woodall
Associate Professor, Dept. of History

Minor Registers: Early Jazz Culture in 1920s Istanbul

The talk examines the Black Mediterranean musical circuit of jazz performance to the transitin from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Türkiye. Istanbul is the protagonist, a node of music making, music, and performers.

Carole Woodall is an associate professor of modern Middle East history in the Department of History and Women’s and Ethnic Studies Department affiliate faculty at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research, which has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the International Journal for Middle East Studies, for several ABC-CLIO reference work projects, and in the edited book, Mediterranean Encounters in the City(Lexington Books, 2015), and Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment (Routledge, 2023), focuses on transnational jazz culture, popular culture, and the urban environment in interwar Istanbul. She has published translations of primary sources on social dancing and the modern woman in 1920s Istanbul in The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History, and Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. Currently, she is completing her book, Minor Registers: Early Jazz Culture in 1920s Istanbul.

Carole Woodall Research Interests consist of transnational jazz, jazz historiography, urban history, material culture and tourism.

Jenna Rice
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History

"Special Ops Camels: Dromedaries, Bactrians, and the Specialization of Animals in the Macedonian Army"

The Macedonian army under Alexander the Great incorporated the intrepid Old World camelid in numerous ways. An investigation of two key campaigns reveals the creativity and logistical flexibility of the army and counters the current narrative that camels were of limited utility. 

J. Rice received her master's and doctorate in history from the University of Missouri, Columbia where she specialized in Greco-Macedonian military and political history. From 2020-2022 she taught classical literature and Latin in the department of Classics and Philosophy at Westminster University; ancient combat history in the Honors College of the University of Missouri, and American colonial history at the Moberley Area Community College. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the History Department of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs from 2022-2024. She has published with Arctos: Acata Fennica Philologica and has submitted papers for volumes with Verlag Dr. Kovac and Routledge concerning animal and military history in antiquity. 

J. Rice researches ancient Greco-Macedonian socio-military history with a particular interest in the parameters of violence and massacre in antiquity. She also works in the field of human-animal studies (HAS) and the sociology of animal use in the military arena.